Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However divided on politics, all Hollanders unite in agreeing that the House of Orange is the incarnation of Dutch virtue and Queen Wilhelmina the finest sovereign any nation ever had. Last week planes were forbidden to fly over Soestdijk Palace and cars and bicycles passed it slowly and quietly, for there Crown Princess Juliana was waiting for her second baby. At 7 one morning 51 guns announced the birth of a second daughter. The nation was sorry that it was not a male heir, but healthy Princess Juliana has said that she is going to have a dozen children...
While Germany's representatives in the U. S. spluttered that no statement of condition could be demanded of a sovereign nation, SEC's five members (three Democrats & two Republicans in full accord) enjoyed the well-earned slap which they had given the Nazi face...
Incalculable tons of water had cascaded over Niagara Falls between 1776 and a summery night last week when the great-great-great-grandson of England's George III was trundled across Niagara River to set foot in the U. S. A.-first British sovereign ever to do so. A royal red carpet was spread on the station platform at Niagara Falls, N. Y. and when the blue & silver royal train slid in, Secretary of State Cordell Hull & wife stepped up to welcome the visitors. Mr. Hull said: "Your Majesties, on behalf of the Government and the people...
...Freedom-cherishing Englishmen once feared that the presence of the Sovereign might overawe the House of Commons, cause it to curb its opinions...
...Army under the bluffs of Quebec 180 years ago to wrest the country from the French for Britain. George VI, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, and his Queen, Elizabeth, were coming a-visiting-the first sovereign visit in Canada's history...